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Tiny Britain once controlled almost the world's heavy sea lanes and colonies nearly 200 times larger than its own territory, and the time span of control was so long, and the influence was so far-reaching. This article was published by www. lwχs520。 com debut

So, with Great Qin's current strength, can't he do this?

In terms of technology, Daqin has been much ahead of the West, shipbuilding, weapons, also a big lead, and now the Ordnance Supervisor has manufactured a front-loading rifled gun, this kind of artillery has a longer range and higher accuracy.

Moreover, a breech-loading rifled gun is being developed, and after a large amount of manpower and material resources have been invested, it has also been successfully accepted.

More importantly, mathematics, physics and chemistry have begun to spread under the strong promotion of Qin Mu, the emperor, with China's huge population base, the emergence of engineering talents must be incomparable to other countries, and natural science and technology will also be developed in a blowout.

The prosperity of maritime trade has accelerated the accumulation of capital, and the industrial revolution is bound to come quickly.

In addition, under the leadership of Qin Mu, the awareness of sea power in the whole country is constantly strengthening, and with strong national strength, it is not necessarily difficult to dominate the four seas like Britain.

And to control the hegemony of the seas, Suez is a place that must not be ignored.

Qin Mu's original plan was to force the Ottomans to cede Suez through Li Ding's campaign, but now it seems that this is no longer possible.

From the words of the scholar Ottoman, it can be seen that the Ottomans had seen the root cause of the fall of the empire, and they had begun to strengthen the naval construction in the Arabian Peninsula, which further proves that the scholar's words have been recognized by the Ottoman leadership.

Although the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire were both countries in the Islamic world, the strength of the two navies was also very different because of the different environments in which they lived.

Previously, the main enemies of the Safavid were the Ottoman Empire and the Uzbeks. Add to that a Mughal dynasty where relations were good and bad. These threats all came from land, so all of Safavid's energy was invested in army construction, and the navy was very weak, and it was easy for Great Qin to bully the Safavid Empire.

Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, was located on the strait, and the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea was also his territory, and all of this required a strong navy to withstand attacks from Christendom.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire paid great attention to the construction of its navy, and their navy was strong enough in the Mediterranean to compete with the navies of Spain and many European countries.

In the Red Sea region, they also maintain a relatively strong naval force. On one occasion, he even went to the island of Sumatra in Southeast Asia to help the small Islamic nation on the island resist the invasion of Europeans.

It's just that before Daqin's ocean-going fleet advanced into the Indian Ocean, the main naval force of the Ottoman Empire in the direction of the Indian Ocean was defeated by the Dutch. Therefore, they have only stopped in the Indian Ocean for a year.

Now that the Ottoman Empire understands that the trade route of the Red Sea is related to the rise and fall of the entire country, it will not be so easy to recapture the trade route between the East and the West, and it will not be so easy for them to spit out Suez.

Moreover, such a huge empire, if it goes all out to develop its navy, it will pose a great challenge to Great Qin in the Indian Ocean. Of course, this is even more intolerable to Qin Mu.

Suez region. Must be taken.

The question is how to take the Suez region?

Suez is too far from Daqin. As the saying goes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and the Ottoman Empire was so huge. Again valued this place so much, the warships of the navy drove over. Even if this area is temporarily captured, the Ottomans will definitely fight to recapture it, and then they will have to garrison a large army. The Suez region is still at war.

In this way, Great Qin would spend a lot of energy and wealth in this place, so it was not the best policy to forcibly seize it through war.

Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War said: "Your Majesty, if I send troops to directly seize the Suez region by force, there will be a lot of trouble and hidden worries. The minister studied the Ottoman system, and the Ottoman rule was so vast that it mainly relied on the Timar system. This is a ruling system similar to that of feudal fiefdoms.

The Ottoman Sultan gave land to meritorious soldiers as compensation for military service. The territory of Timar is usually divided into two types according to the amount of income:

Those who have an annual income of less than 20,000 akches (small silver coins) are called Timar, and their lords are called Timarzhe; An annual income of between 2 and 100,000 akche is called Zeamet, and its lord is called Zaim. The two are commonly known as the Sipahi, that is, the feudal cavalry.

Their possession of the territory is conditional, in addition to the fact that they must be called to participate in the war in wartime, they also provide a certain number of cavalry according to the income of their territory, usually 1 for every 3000~5000 akche. The horses, weapons, food, etc., of the cavalry were supplied by the lord.

The lord usually lived in the territory, and in addition to managing a certain amount of arable land for himself, he also supervised the use of the land and the payment of taxes by the peasants. The state exercises strict supervision over their territories. The lord shall allocate the vast majority of the land to the peasants for hereditary cultivation and shall not confiscate it at will;

The land managed by the lord himself could not exceed the peasant's share; Territories cannot be hereditary, except for a small part that is strictly regulated; The legitimacy of the taxes levied by the lord and the size of the tax were subject to the supervision of the cadi (judge).

These regulations not only restricted the unrestricted expansion of the lord's lands and made it possible for the state to regularly reclaim a portion of the land for redistribution, but also adjusted the relationship between the peasants and the feudal lords to a certain extent.

In the early days, the Ottomans continued to expand abroad, and the lords made their fortunes mainly on the spoils of war, and did not see real estate as their main source of income. They were usually confined to the collection of land rents and played the role of political lords.

But now, as the Ottoman state weakened and its military capabilities shrank, the local lords of Timar could no longer live a rich life on the spoils of war, but only on taxes.

However, the amount of taxes was strictly supervised by the officials, and the price of goods in the Ottoman country continued to rise, and the cost of raising soldiers for the lords of Timar increased dramatically. Led to the bankruptcy of many lords.

The Sultan had already stipulated that any Timar lord who had not raised enough troops for three consecutive years, or who had not prepared enough food and grass, should take back their fiefdoms. Many of the Sipahi cavalry lords could not survive, so they ran to the border to rebel, so the Ottomans rebelled in the country for many years.

If the DPRK can formulate some targeted strategies and support some Timar lords to rebel in the Suez region, and form one or two small countries in the future, with these small countries as a barrier, after our DPRK captures the Suez region, there is no need to worry about being repeatedly attacked by the Ottoman army. ”

The Suez region was one of the areas under the control of the Ottomans, and without the support of external forces, it would be difficult for the Sipahi cavalry lords who were forced to rebel to gain a foothold in this area.

It is worth mentioning that the Ottoman Empire was not limited to cavalry with cold weapons, they used firearms for a similar history as Europeans. The seventh Ottoman monarch, Mehmed II (-), made extensive use of artillery in his campaign against Byzantine Constantinople.

The cannon cast by Mehmed II, known as the Urban Cannon, was 9 meters long and had a caliber of 30 inches, enough to easily fit a large man into the barrel and fire a shell weighing 680 kilograms. The range of artillery shells can reach more than 1.6 km.

Mehmed II built fifty or sixty pieces of artillery for the assault on Constantinople before capturing the bridgehead of Europe.

At present, the Ottoman firearms technology is not much worse than that of European countries, and it is able to suppress most of Europe with the strength of one country.

However, like most European countries, the Ottoman soldiers now use really smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns, which cannot be compared with the rifled guns and rifled guns used by the Qin army.

Great Qin's navy sailed to the Suez region to support the local Sipahi cavalry lords in their rebellion and dismantle the Ottoman rule in the Suez region, an idea that suited Qin Mu's heart.

What Great Qin wanted was not how much land to occupy locally, as long as he controlled this important passage.

It makes a lot of money to get the local lords to fight the Ottomans to the death!

Qin Mu thought for a while and said: "This matter will be left to Hai Rufeng to do, if it is done well, it will have its own reward, if it is not done well, he, the admiral of the ocean-going fleet, will not have to do it." ”

He Liang, Di Zhongxing and others looked at each other, it seems that the emperor has always been worried about Hai Rufeng being ready to pick a son because of a woman!

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